Event Details

Micro-aggressions: Impacts on the Workplace & the Workforce

Presented by: Nicole S. Croddick Esq

Tuesday, February 14, 2023 - 12:30 to 01:30pm

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DESCRIPTION:

Micro-aggressions are subtle but common words and actions that express prejudice and highlight difference in regard to a marginalized and often legally-protected group. Micro-aggressions undermine diversity and inclusion efforts and cause legal and other risks for both the organization and its workforce. More importantly micro-aggressions easily damage the workforce in numerous ways, including causing negative impacts on productivity, engagement, retention, inclusion, and employee's well-being and mental health. In this course, you will learn how to define, how to become aware of, and how to prevent and manage micro-aggressions at work.

PROGRAM OBJECTIVES:

1. Participants will learn what are and how to define Microaggessions and unconscious bias.

2. Participants will learn how microaggressions negatively impact the workplace and the work force.

3. Participants will be given tools to become aware of, manage, and attempt to prevent microaggressions.

OUR SPEAKER

Nicole Sorokolit Croddick is Counsel at Davison, Eastman, Muñoz, Paone, P.A. where she focuses her practice on labor and employment matters. She consults companies on human resources and labor and employment legal issues and has conducted internal investigations on ethical, policy, and legal violations. With this breadth of experience, she has gained a deep understanding of the problems that exist in the modern workplace. Additionally, she has drafted employee policies and handbooks, severance agreements, employment agreements, has updated hiring and employee discipline forms and procedures, and facilitated trainings on a variety of labor and employment law and compliance topics, including Continuing Legal Education. Nicole has also taken her experience and used it appropriately as a subject matter expert in numerous ethical/legal training videos for LRN Corporation, a leader in ethics and compliance training to major organizations worldwide.

Prior to joining the firm, she was a clerk for the Hon. Lawrence Lawson, a New Jersey Superior Court Assignment Judge. Thereafter, she worked as a juvenile prosecutor in New York City under the Giuliani administration, focusing on narcotics and gang intelligence matters. She conducts all work in both English and Spanish.